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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arizona State has hired University at Buffalo basketball coach Bobby Hurley, the school confirmed to&amp;nbsp;ESPN.com Thursday.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hurley amassed a 42-20 record during his two seasons as coach of the Bulls. He lead Buffalo to its first NCAA tournament berth in school history in 2015.&amp;nbsp;Buffalo lost to&amp;nbsp;West Virginia&amp;nbsp;68-62 in the tournament's Round of 64.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the hire, Arizona State will replace former coach Herb Sendek, who was fired Mar. 24 after making only two NCAA tournament appearances over nine years at the school.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hurley had emerged as the \"frontrunner\" for the position Wednesday, according to multiple reports. \u200BDuke assistant coach Jeff Capel&amp;nbsp;had also been under consideration, but he removed his name from consideration earlier this week.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;DAVIS: Virginia,&amp;nbsp;UNC, Kentucky lead Way-Too-Early Top 25&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In an interview with &lt;em&gt;SI Now &lt;/em&gt;on Mar. 31, Hurley said he felt he would be Buffalo's head coach for the 2015-16 season.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hurley, 43, helped lead Duke to back-to-back NCAA championships in 1991 and 1992.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DePaul&amp;nbsp;University&amp;nbsp;also showed interest in Hurley to lead its basketball program, but eventually re-hired former its former coach Dave Leitao.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hurley and the University at Buffalo had reached a verbal agreement to renegotiate his contract to make him the highest paid coach in the Mid-American Conference,&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Buffalo News&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;reported&amp;nbsp;last month.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Scooby Axson and Will Green&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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